Theocast
How to Feel Christ's Love
February 28, 2024
Summary
Here is the reality for Christians: the one we love the most is the one we’ve never seen. There are times we have a hard time comprehending what God is like. We have a hard time feeling his love for us. And so, God can feel distant from us. It is hard for us to feel safe approaching him. Jon and Justin talk about our relationships with Jesus, his love for us, how he is with his people, seeing him in the Word of God and more in today’s episode.
Topics
- Episode focus: How to Feel Christ's Love
- Here is the reality for Christians: the one we love the most is the one we’ve never seen
- There are times we have a hard time comprehending what God is like
- We have a hard time feeling his love for us
- And so, God can feel distant from us
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Transcript
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The hardest part about Christianity at times can be the one we say we love the most, we've never seen.
We've never touched him, never had a conversation with him.
And that can be hard.
And we want to have this significant connection to our God and King Christ.
And we believe, Justin and I, that scripture can do that for us.
And that there are times that through the stories and illustrations and the epistles that we can experience the intimate and emotional side of Christ.
Dare we say there's an experienced side of the Christian faith?
Stay tuned.
If you're new to Theocast, you may not have heard of this word.
It's called pietism.
Have you ever felt like the curse in life is a heavy burden versus rest and joy?
That you wake up worrying about how well you're going to perform instead of thinking about what Christ has done for you.
It's dread versus joy, really.
That's pietism.
Pietism causes Christians to look in on themselves and find their hope not in what Christ has done, but what they're doing.
And we have a little book for you.
It's free.
We want you to download it, and we're going to explain the difference between pietism and what we call confessionalism, reformed theology, really, how it is that we walk by faith, seeing the joy of Christ.
And when Jesus says, Come to me and I will give you rest, what does that look like?
You can download it at our website.
